The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers: Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrencs.Sewel, William
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The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers: Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrencs.
Sewel, William
Society of Friends -- History -- Early works to 1800
Now I return again to G. Fox, who having performed his service about
Ramside, went somewhere else, and came also to Brerecliff, where he
found some people that told him, they could not dispute. But he bid
them to fear the Lord, and not to speak the words of God in an airy
manner, but to do the things required. Moreover, that they ought to
mind the light of Christ, and take heed to his Spirit in their hearts,
whereby they would come to see their evil thoughts, words, and actions;
for this light, (he said,) would show them their sins, and by following
this light, they should also see that their Saviour Christ Jesus, saved
them from sin: and he said, the first step to peace was to stand still
in the light, which showed them their sins and transgressions; by which
they should see they were in the fall of the old Adam, in darkness and
death, alienated from the covenant of the promise, and without God in
the world; and that Christ who died for them, was their Saviour and
Redeemer, and their way to God. After G. Fox had spoken thus, he went
to a new built chapel near Gleaston, wherein none had yet preached:
hither came a great many people, unto whom he preached, and many were
convinced.
From thence he returned to Swarthmore again; for Margaret Fell being
full of fear, and expecting her husband’s return home, had desired G.
Fox to come, since some of the great ones of the country, being gone to
meet her husband, had informed him, that a great disaster had befallen
the family: and that the Quakers were witches, and had turned them from
their religion; and that he must send them away, or all the country
would be undone. Without all question, this was a very sad message to
judge Fell, for he came home greatly offended: and one may easily think
what a condition his wife was in, being in fear that she should either
displease her husband, or offend God.
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